Angry_Autist (he/him)

I don’t think you know what either of those words mean

Ok maybe we can be friends after all…

How arrogant to assume everyone in the universe uses spotify

DNA gives us insight into ancestry that has no parallel in astronomy. When we finally sequence a creature, we pretty much know right on the tree where it goes and stupid fucking crabs and everything that look like them can all get placed in their proper relations when previously purely dissection and observation misled those taxonomy pioneers.

you can’t have that kind of bait and switch on celestial objects because what we see is what we see.

The reason that Pluto was smaller than predicted was the fact that the mass calculations assumed a single central object when the perturbations were made by the PLANET/moon system. That doesn’t change the fact that it has enough mass to deform into a spheroid and orbits within 20% of the orbital plane.

Despite your LoTR handle, you and I could never be friends.

So then let us agree that some rights holders take better care of their IP than others. Earth Final Conflict is another example of this terrible trend.

A word is a word when people use it and it is understood. Grok was in a book, and used extensively in everyday conversation by the 70s counterculture.

Grok is a word.

Seethe.

You can’t help it, hardly anyone including science educators ever really look deep into things.

I will give you this: What the meaning of ‘planet’ has been has changed over time and shrank and grown until in our modern understanding of astronomy it is hard to rectify our image of the solar system. We used to think our local space was empty except for a handful of traveling lights that moved against the relatively still galactic background and we gave spiritual and mythical importance to those lights because we thought such objects uncommon.

But the truth of it is there’s quite a lot of objects that qualify for the original definition of ‘planet’, as in literally every astronomical body out to the heliopause which includes an obscene amount of mass from the Oort cloud. And even I will consider that ridiculous and worthy of revision.

For the longest time it was just the easiest to see objects, then Lowell predicted the existence of Pluto it made the discovery unusual as it wasn’t from direct observation, and personally I think this is the root of astronomers’ reason to exclude it. In their minds there is a primacy assigned to the bodies discovered with the naked eye and primitive telescopes as they represent some symbol of the true nature and majesty of the human effort to understand the heavens, and not because excluding Pluto in any way benefits the classification system.

I get that, but it is not a valid reason to downgrade a disproportionately favorite planet for many people. The added requirement is meaningless as it can very well apply to Earth, downgrading our status as well, but of course everyone just makes a silly face and handwaves despite being reminded twice a year in spectacular fashion that Earth has yet to clear its orbital path.

Sure, if they orbit within 20% of the ecliptic like every other real planet. Ceres does but I don’t know about the other two and am too lazy to care.

Oh the moon certainly influences our orbit, that’s how we get the second tide of the day, just not as much as Charon

And Venus and Mars both have measurable effects on our orbit, just again not to the degree of Pluto.

See this is what pisses me right the fuck off, arrogant people spewing words they don’t understand.

Do you see ANY memes in my post history used as a shorthand for communication? Even one fuckdamn emoji?!

Nothing more clearly illustrates the intellectual bankruptcy of a netizen than them thinking RnM memes are a mic drop moment.

Or, you know, reverse the stupid as fuck arbitrary definition of ‘clearing its own orbit’ being appended to the definition of a planet. It’s that easy.

REM’s Drive, I know it’s trite but I actually liked Blossom.

Group hobbies, amateur sports, maker zones, birdwatching, sometimes even just fishing off of a dock.

Find something fun to do that gets you around other people

Shady Knight too but that’s probably permabeta…

God Hand

Oh man I emulated that a while back and it was good while I could get it to work, but yeah let’s get a remaster and a PC port

Oh and I both respect and encourage your pedantry, I’m in no way trying to dissuade you from your noble battle, just pointing out that your struggle will be against people who have zero grasp of the concept of albedo and are irrationally proud about that.

Do they orbit on the general plane of the other planets in the system? COOL! Add them to the list!

IDGAF if we have hundreds of planets, it’s always been an arbitrary number and the only reason to keep it small is so kids can memorize the list and that isn’t good enough to DISRESPECT motherfucking PLUTO

With my friends it was the cinnamon challenge. I have zero regrets noping out of that one.